Jezebel loses all credibility: video Recommendation to the writers of Jezebel: if you're doing public speaking, don't get completely drunk first.
If you're writing a feminist blog, then when you put yourself out there, you ARE being the example of feminism for all to see. And the example of feminism you show here? Laughing-stock.
I used to be a fan of Jezebel, but after watching this, I can't look at the blog without thinking of them as stupid attention whores. How disappointing. I expected better.
Alright, I'm off to Sacramento/Woodland for four days of playing nursemaid, cleaning house, marveling over my 3rd grade drawings, playing WoW, swimming, and cooking with ridiculously fresh and cheap produce.
Despite being tired, Chris and I stayed up way too late on Friday post-BBQ (we should've just gone with you guys after all, gwenzilla) so we were pretty dead yesterday. We laid around the house, then decided that we had to go to Olive Garden in the same of science (I'm fucking serious) so I'll be writing up my experience there in detail. In retrospect it was lulz but it didn't feel like it at the time. Then we caught a glimpse of some fireworks from the third floor of our building and watched "The Towering Inferno."
Whee, life. All right, so I'm planning on going to MFF. Current plan is to fly, but if anyone's driving out there I'd much prefer the road trip.
I could do with a replacement for tasktoy. The features I need are the ability to make tasks that repeat regularly, and the ability to get them by email. Tasktoy has both of these, but a lot of the emails aren't getting to me (in the past month, I lost forty). Google currently has no results for "better than tasktoy"; I'll hafta make one myself—or, I could revert to index cards...
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Lift Magic is allowing anyone curious about cosmetic surgery, but too frightened to go under the knife, to see an improved version of themselves at the click of a mouse. Lift Magic offers a virtual makeover for prospective plastic surgery patients, so they can see how they might look after eye-bag removal, a nose job or a face-lift.
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So, you say you've got boy troubles? Your boyfriend or your husband is giving you a real hard time? Wondering what you should do about it? Well, wonder no more, because Roller Derby Diva Extraordinaire, Mia Psycho, is here to help!
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Amoenitas Hodie puellas inter perpulchras experrectus sum. Semisomnes horam tranquillam iacebamus imbrem maximum auscultantes. Aurae frigore, luce glauca, cutis mollitie fruebar.
Vocavit eheu mundus saevis. In cucinam igitur exsul profectus sum caffeam coctum. Praemium autem inaestimabilis erat conspectus amasiarum luxuriosa in teneritate cubantium.
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NKOTB I'm viewing a video on TV by New Kids on the Block called "Summertime." This is freaky. They're all kind of vaguely visibly old. And the music is all 2008-ish, but it's their faces.
Oh well, I'm all for stuff put out purely to fight the brooding reality that guys like me are getting ooold.
“This is KT calling from Wichita Falls. Um, I made here with no trouble, but now that I'm here I can't seem to access the internet, because apparently the hotel has WiFi but not on this side of the building. I dunno what's up with that. Anyway, I'll try to get online tomorrow night and I'll be in New Mexico. See you in Seattle in a few days.”
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Checking through the 11th-century geographer al-Bakri for information on the linguistic history of Siwa, I was not surprised to see that he says the Siwans were Berber, and not very surprised to see that the people of Bahariya at the time were Arabs and Copts, and those of Farafra Copts alone. I was a bit more surprised, though, when a little further down the page he says that some of the people of Dakhla and Kharja, in southern Egypt (map), were Lawāta Berbers:
وهذا واح الداخلة كثير الأنهار والعمارات... ومن هذا الواح إلى الواحين الخارجين ثلاث مراحل وهو آخر بلاد الإسلام... وفي بغض الواحات قبائل من لواتة
It kind of fits with an observation made by several Nubian specialists (I read it in an article by Bechhaus-Gerst) that Nubian - specifically Nobiin, in fact, not the Nubian languages of Kordofan or Darfur - seems to contain Berber loanwords; the easiest to remember, and most convincing, of these is "water", aman (which in other Nubian languages is something completely different, along the lines of essi.) If a dictionary of the Arabic dialects of these oases ever comes out, it would be very interesting to check it for Berber loanwords.
On a more romantic note, al-Bakri also warns those travelling into the desolate lands west of these oases that they will find "great sands... full of palm trees and springs, with no civilisation nor companions, where the murmuring of the jinn is heard unceasingly."
Impigra cum cura heri cutem personae meae exstruebam. Non solum eius exemplar, quod quondam fabricatus sum, debeo superare, sed etiam haec nova debet cum aliis contendere ut laudes eliciat. Splendida quidem debet videri ut bene apud saltationem accipiatur, immo vero ut ego bene accipiar. Sic semper pueris.
Nam personam Mellis simpliciter clavis ornavi. Vix refert : corsettum illud geret ut totam noctem nemo personam conspiciat ! Atque personam Ruthae quoque me oportet ornare, quippe meliorem illi debeo quam hanc vilem et inelegantem in taberna vestimentorum scaenicorum emptam. Ista enim hospitibus satisfaciat, ut mane sermocinati sumus ; es, inquam, puella perpulchra : dum persona habeas, curat nemo. Taenias autem et elencos &c. mihi dabit. Sic puellis singulam personam bellam fabricatus ero. Etsi me paenitet puchritudines illarum occultare.
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